also, there is a lot of 90 deg. angles in the drain that my dad swaped out for 45s last night which gave it more of a slope

well how does the water travel now.. any headway

i dunno, we didnt fill it since we did that. that was yesterday....now i think we are going to fill it tomorow and see what happens..... any other suggestions\?

Why are you waiting til tomorrow, looking for any butterfly's or a koran

nope sorry Mike! i have a question. if i take 2" off the main baffle (which makes it 8") would that help to get more water to the pump side??

why not add more water to the sump. the easy way to do it is
turn on the pump until it sucks almost dry.
then turn off the pump let it go until the siphon breaks.
then see how much water you have left in the sump.
then add so more water to the sum to make it higher or keep it at asafe level.

Now that you have made changes to the drains... try filling up the sump to the height of the baffles and let her fly hopefuly the drain problem is fixed.... but the problem is definately in the drains and nowhere else!

ok, so it WAS the drains... i took the upsidedown J out of the overflows and just left it as a straight stick like this.
http://www.freewebs.com/eriksnanoreef/DRAIN.jpg
and YAY! it keeps up with the pump!!! the pump is wide open and it works great BUT it is VERY noisy.... how can i stop this without effecting flow?

told ya it was the homemade overflow.... congrats:mrgreen:

i have a scopas and a yellow for sale

A Durso or Stockman standpipe will help you in this situation.

http://www.dursostandpipes.com/

OR

http://www.rl180reef.com/pages/stand...n_stockman.htm